Josephine Brandenburg
Institute of Geography
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Since May 2025
Funded as part of the ‘Graduate Centre for Doctoral Students’ of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt)
Since January 2025
Doctoral student in the junior research group ‘Resilience of Digital Infrastructures – Geopolitical Conflicts around Internet Routing’ (BMFTR project), Working Group on Geographies of Digital Infrastructures, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
2021-2024
Master of Arts Cultural Geography: ‘Legitimacy of European border protection – The European border protection agency Frontex in crisis’, Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
2017-2021
BA Cultural Geography/Political Science: “Climate refuge to Europe? A discourse-theoretical analysis of negotiations and practices of the EU Commission”, Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
Since May 2025
Funded as part of the ‘Graduate Centre for Doctoral Students’ of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt)
Since January 2025
Doctoral student in the junior research group ‘Resilience of Digital Infrastructures – Geopolitical Conflicts around Internet Routing’ (BMFTR project), Working Group on Geographies of Digital Infrastructures, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
2021-2024
Master of Arts Cultural Geography: ‘Legitimacy of European border protection – The European border protection agency Frontex in crisis’, Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
2017-2021
BA Cultural Geography/Political Science: “Climate refuge to Europe? A discourse-theoretical analysis of negotiations and practices of the EU Commission”, Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
Since May 2025
Funded as part of the ‘Graduate Centre for Doctoral Students’ of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt)
Since January 2025
Doctoral student in the junior research group ‘Resilience of Digital Infrastructures – Geopolitical Conflicts around Internet Routing’ (BMFTR project), Working Group on Geographies of Digital Infrastructures, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
2021-2024
Master of Arts Cultural Geography: ‘Legitimacy of European border protection – The European border protection agency Frontex in crisis’, Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
2017-2021
BA Cultural Geography/Political Science: “Climate refuge to Europe? A discourse-theoretical analysis of negotiations and practices of the EU Commission”, Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
Summer semester 26: Large field seminar: Infrastructural geographies in Marseille and Genoa (together with Dr. Finn Dammann)
I am a doctoral candidate in the junior research group ‘Resilience of Digital Infrastructures – Geopolitical Conflicts over Internet Routing,’ led by Dr. Finn Dammann.
In my dissertation, I am investigating unequal infrastructuralisation in the Mediterranean region, with a focus on content delivery networks and AI. In addition, I am generally interested in postcolonial and decolonial perspectives in the field of digital and political geography.
I am a doctoral candidate in the junior research group ‘Resilience of Digital Infrastructures – Geopolitical Conflicts over Internet Routing,’ led by Dr. Finn Dammann.
In my dissertation, I am investigating unequal infrastructuralisation in the Mediterranean region, with a focus on content delivery networks and AI. In addition, I am generally interested in postcolonial and decolonial perspectives in the field of digital and political geography.
- Sociotechnical imaginations of internet infrastructures: Insights from southern European centres of digital infrastructure development (06.11.2025-07.11.2025), conference of the Digital Geography Working Group in Frankfurt am Main
- Interconnection Hubs, Content Delivery Networks and Emerging AI Infrastructures. Insights into the Material Geographies of ‘digital Ecosystems’ in the Western Mediterranean. Poster presentation at the annual conference of the Royal Geographic Society 2025 (26.8-29.8) in Birmingham, UK.
- Interconnection hubs, content delivery networks and emerging AI infrastructures – insights into the material geographies of digital colonialism in the western Mediterranean region, conference of the Political Geography Working Group, 22–24 May 2025 in Freiburg (together with Finn Dammann)
- Soziotechnische Imaginationen von Internetinfrastrukturen – Einblicke in südeuropäische Zentren der Interconnection, Jahrestagung des AK Digitale Geographie 6.-7.11.2025 in Frankfurt am Main.
- Interconnection Hubs, Content Delivery Networks and Emerging AI Infrastructures. Insights into the Material Geographies of „digital Ecosystems“ in the Western Mediterranean. Posterpräsentation im Rahmen der jährlichen Royal Geographic Society conference 2025 (26.8-29.8) in Birmingham, UK.
- Interconnection Hubs, Content Delivery Networks und neu entstehende KI-Infrastrukturen – Einblicke in die materiellen Geographien des digitalen Kolonialismus im westlichen Mittelmeerraum, Tagung des AK Politische Geographie 22.–24. Mai 2025 in Freiburg (zusammen mit Finn Dammann).